Kurakhovskaya TES
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Kurakhovka power station (Kurakhovskaya TES) is a thermal power plant on Volycha river 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Kurakhovka in Donetsk Oblast
, Ukraine
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The first Kurakhovka power station went in service on July 6, 1941, but was soon put as result of World War II out of service.
On October 20, 1941 it was occupied by German troops, who destroyed it in their retraction in 1943. On August 12, 1946 it went into operation again. Further units were installed resulting in an output power of 400 MW. Between 1972 and 1975 7 new units, one with 200 MW, 6 with 210 MW went in service, which replaced the old one and which are after modernization in 2006 still in use. The chimney of the power plant is 250 metres (820.2 ft) tall.
Donetsk Oblast
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, Ukraine
Ukraine
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The first Kurakhovka power station went in service on July 6, 1941, but was soon put as result of World War II out of service.
On October 20, 1941 it was occupied by German troops, who destroyed it in their retraction in 1943. On August 12, 1946 it went into operation again. Further units were installed resulting in an output power of 400 MW. Between 1972 and 1975 7 new units, one with 200 MW, 6 with 210 MW went in service, which replaced the old one and which are after modernization in 2006 still in use. The chimney of the power plant is 250 metres (820.2 ft) tall.